Principal Security Engineer

What You'll Do

• Leads technical direction in designing and implementing security solutions for corporate technical infrastructure and business applications.
• Participates in all phases of project planning in security service support, including functional requirements, design specifications, testing and quality assurance, implementation and support.
• Leads technical engineering services to support and update existing security systems and works to automate processes related to security implementations, monitoring, and enforcement.
• Investigates, recommends, evaluates, deploys and integrates security tools and techniques to improve our ability to protect corporate assets and infrastructure.
• Participates in technical risk assessments and security exposure analyses of systems, networks and business applications.
• Evaluates and implements security devices such as firewalls, IDS, IPS, threat correlation tools, vulnerability management tools, encryption capabilities, etc.
• Analyzes network elements and designs to ensure secure and optimal system and network performance and cost effectiveness.
• Oversees the purchase, installation, and support of security devices.
• Responsible for assessing and managing information security risks to pre-existing current systems.
• Assists in the planning of large scale systems projects through vendor comparison and cost studies.
• Monitors, reports and resolves all security related problems and discrepancies.
• Participates as a member of the Information Security Incident Response Team.
• Interacts with internal and external clients on security requirements, identifies security process and develops strategies/solutions to security issues while maintaining tight security discipline.
• Develops test plan and implements rigorous testing prior to rollout of new systems into the production environment.
• Leads Cyber Security incident investigations
• Required to perform duties outside of normal work hours based on business needs.

What You'll Bring

• Generally requires a BS Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Telecommunications, or Electrical Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
• Must have minimum 7 years information security experience.
• Must have 5+ years hands on experience with networking, intrusion detection, VPN, PKI, Next-Generation firewalls, NAC; Identity management and encryption technologies.
• Uses skills as a seasoned, experienced professional with a full understanding of industry practices and established policies and procedures.
• Troubleshoots and guides others on a wide variety of complex problems and identifies solutions within broad application and functional expertise.
• May set objectives for project goals and other team members and monitors progress to achieve goals.
• Devises or modifies department processes and procedures.
• Negotiates, persuades and gains consensus from cross functional team(s).
• Errors may cause system/application outages that affect a large number of users or possibly multiple applications.
• Experience in implementing Information Security technologies and/or processes required.
• Experience in product evaluation and managing vendor relationships required.
• Experience in defining Information Security strategy and integrating security technologies into corporate frameworks.
• Must have hands on working knowledge of UNIX/AIX, Microsoft NT/2000, firewall multi-layer design and implementation, router access list/packet filtering (CISCO), WANs, LANs, the Internet, Intranets, network protocols and network services (i.e., telnet, ftp, etc.), Intrusion detection systems, Virtual Private Network (VPN), two factor authentication.
• No formal responsibility for the supervision of others but may provide functional advice or training to less experienced team members
• May instruct, direct, and assign work to other team members, monitoring project status.
• Uses expertise of other team members and leverages a wide range of additional resources to explore/implement complex customized applications as a solution.
• May act as a team leader for projects with moderate budgets or of a short to intermediate duration.
• Experience in implementing Information Security technologies and/or processes required.
• Experience in product evaluation and managing vendor relationships required.
• Experience in defining Information Security strategy and integrating security technologies into corporate frameworks.
• Must have hands on working knowledge of UNIX/AIX, Microsoft NT/2000, firewall multi-layer design and implementation, router access list/packet filtering (CISCO), WANs, LANs, the Internet, Intranets, network protocols and network services (i.e., telnet, ftp, etc.), Intrusion detection systems, Virtual Private Network (VPN), two factor authentication.
• CISSP, GIAC, CCNA, CCNP preferred

Salary Range: $166,750.00-$222,325.00

This hiring range is a reasonable estimate of the base pay range for this position at the time of posting. Pay is based on a number of factors which may include job-related knowledge, skills, experience, business requirements and geographic location

Disclaimer
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal work hours and/or responsibilities from time to time, as needed.